Josh Hawley at CPAC: We're Not Backing Down to Big Tech and the Woke Mob
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Josh Hawley at CPAC: We're Not Backing Down to Big Tech and the Woke Mob
Senator Josh Hawley delivers a fiery speech at CPAC, addressing the attempts to cancel him following his Electoral College objection. He discusses the alliance between radical liberals and big tech corporations, calling it an oligarchy that threatens American liberty. Hawley argues for breaking up big tech monopolies, defending citizenship and borders, reclaiming American history, and putting the rule of the people above corporate power. Despite facing censorship, book cancellations, and calls for his expulsion from the Senate, Hawley declares he's not backing down and neither should patriots who believe in constitutional principles.
Senator Josh Hawley took the stage at CPAC to thunderous applause, immediately addressing the elephant in the room. He greeted the crowd by joking that they were supposed to be canceled and should have asked permission before attending. Hawley then launched into a candid discussion about the attempts to silence him over the past six weeks.
The radical left, their corporate allies, and the liberal media had tried to cancel, censor, expel, and shut him down. Their goal was to stop him from representing the people of Missouri and patriots across America. But Hawley made his stance clear: he's not going anywhere, and he's not backing down.
He also pushed back against those who claim his movement represents the past. On the contrary, Hawley insisted that patriots gathered at CPAC represent the future of the country and the next generation. They won't back down to the woke mob or cancel culture, and they refuse to be told what they can say or do.
Facing a National Crisis
Hawley acknowledged that America is facing one of the great moments of crisis in its history—a fight for the republic itself. The nation confronts an unprecedented alliance between radical liberals and the biggest, most powerful corporations in world history. Companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter possess more power than any corporations in American history, and they're aligning with the radical left to impose their agenda.
This alliance, Hawley argued, wants to run the country. He gave this phenomenon a name: oligarchy. Americans face a basic choice between a republic where the people rule or an oligarchy where big tech and liberals rule. That is the challenge and choice of our time.
The fight requires standing on the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Hawley reminded the audience that the Declaration states our inalienable rights to life and liberty come from God, not from government—and certainly not from Google. The fight of our time is to make the rule of the people an actual reality again and to restore the sovereignty of the American people.
The Timeless Fight for Liberty
This has always been the fight of liberty since the beginning of human history, Hawley noted. There's always been a small group of people who think they know best and should be in charge, able to tell everyone else what to think and do. Today, that group consists of big corporations and liberal elites—the oligarchy.
What are patriots fighting for? The same thing the Founding Fathers fought for: the rule of the people, the ability to have our own say, to run our own government, and to have real self-government in America.
The Oligarchy's Recent Actions
Hawley pointed to the last two months as evidence of where the oligarchs want to take the country. Big tech corporations have de-platformed conservatives across the board, shutting them up, shutting them out, and shutting them down. They even censored the President of the United States. If they can censor him, Hawley warned, they can censor any American citizen.
Hawley shared his own experience. On January 6th, he objected during the Electoral College certification. He stood up and said there should be a debate about election integrity, that it's the right of the people to be heard, and that his constituents in Missouri wanted to be heard on this issue.
He did what Democrat colleagues have done in every single election where a Republican president won over the last 20 years. Democrats have objected to 11 different states in certifications over the last 25 years across three different presidential elections. Yet when Hawley called for a debate on election integrity, he was called a traitor and a seditionist. The radical left demanded he resign, and if he wouldn't resign, that he be expelled from the United States Senate.
As he told the crowd earlier, he's not going anywhere. He's staying to stand up for the people. If Americans can't have free and open debate in this country, there won't be a country left. If free and open debate according to the laws in the United States Senate isn't possible, what good is the Senate? Why send anybody to Washington at all?
The Cancel Campaign Against Hawley and Others
Hawley thought it was an important stand to take. For that, the left came after him. They tried to silence him and canceled a book he was writing called "The Tyranny of Big Tech." He noted the irony wasn't lost on him. The book will still be published soon, he assured the audience.
But Hawley's experience is just a slice of what others have endured. Many have had it worse. Lists of Trump voters were created online so they could be punished. One outfit in Washington keeps a list of everybody who ever worked for Donald Trump—including White House interns—to ensure they can never get another job in Washington.
Hawley shared the story of Cara Dumaplin, a woman with an online business consulting on how to get babies to sleep. Before dismissing the example as trivial, Hawley mentioned he has three little kids at home, including baby Abigail, whom he and his wife welcomed on November 9th. The Hawley household is very interested in sleep. His wife knew of Dumaplin, who had an Instagram presence with about 4 million followers. Her sin? She supported Donald Trump. They came after her, tried to shut down her accounts, and tried to run her out of business.
That very morning, Hawley learned of a Christian worship leader at a church who produces worship albums. He received a call from his corporate distributor saying they won't distribute his next album. His sin? He supported Donald Trump in the election. This is what corporate America and the radical left are doing across the board, and they'll keep doing it unless something is done about it.
How We Got Here
The real question is how we arrived at this point where these oligarchs and massive corporations, in partnership with the left, can do what they're doing. The answer: policy experts and elected officials in Washington DC for decades have let them do it. They've given them the power.
How did big tech get so big? Washington gave away the store. Washington subsidized Google, Facebook, and Twitter. And what have these companies and other mega-corporations and multinationals done to repay the favor? They've shipped jobs to China, paid workers poverty wages, and violated the principles Americans hold dear.
The left is fine with this because together—the left and these oligarch companies—they can impose their agenda on everyone else. That's exactly what they're trying to do.
A New Nationalism for America
So what should be done about it? In this moment of crisis, the country needs patriots to take a stand and say they will not be ruled by giant corporations and the liberal elite. They will not be told what to do by modern-day oligarchs.
What's needed is a new nationalism, a new agenda to make the rule of the people real and give America back to the people. No more rule by oligarchs—rule by the people.
Hawley outlined how he would start: break up the big tech corporations. Break them up in the name of the rule of the people, for the good of the American people and liberty. The Republican Party was once the party of trust busters—they essentially invented the concept. It's time to reclaim that legacy, not just for big tech but for all the huge multinational corporations that have sold out to China, sold out workers, and sold out jobs. They need to be broken up so there can be free, fair competition in America again. That's what it means for the people to rule.
Americans must stand up to China and not allow them to continue pushing the country around, taking jobs, and cheating on trade. The priority must be American workers first, not illegal immigrants.
Defending Citizenship and Borders
On immigration, Hawley addressed the accusation that believing in borders or thinking citizenship matters makes someone a bigot or backwards. He wanted to enlighten liberal friends: we believe in borders because we believe in citizenship, and we believe in citizenship because we believe in America.
Hawley grew up in rural Missouri, in a small working-class town right in the middle of the state, full of good folks working hard every day. Where he comes from, people believe in citizenship because they're proud of it. They're proud to be Americans. When you come to America, you join a family, and in this family, people stick up for one another, protect one another, and believe in one another. That's what citizenship means. That's why it's worth protecting. That's why we need a border.
Resisting Division and Reclaiming History
Patriots must resist the attempts of oligarchs to divide the country. The oligarchs will only succeed if people do nothing and allow themselves to be divided. Their strategy was on display throughout the previous year. Americans heard endlessly from corporate media, big tech, and the left about how terrible the country is—that we are systemically racist, that the real founding wasn't in 1776 but in 1619, that America was founded in lies and evil.
All of that is false. All of that is a lie. America is not a perfect place, but it's a good place. More than that, it's a great place—the greatest nation in the history of the world.
Part of standing up to the oligarchs in tech, media, and among liberals is reclaiming American history and saying it is good. Patriots are proud to be Americans, proud to live in a country that started with nothing and became the greatest country on the face of the earth. They're proud to live in a country that liberated slaves, liberated a continent under Nazi dictatorship, and rebuilt the entire world after a world war. This nation did all of that.
Are we perfect? Of course not. It's like a pastor says at church: Have you ever been to a perfect church? The answer is no, because every church is full of people. America is full of people—but it's full of good people who continue to seek the light and strive toward that more perfect union.
The Call to Action
It's up to patriots to stand up and remind fellow Americans of what they believe together, what they love together, and to tell the oligarchs who want to rule this country that their day has passed. Americans are going to stand for the liberty that their forefathers fought and died for and make it real again in this day.
It seems now that the oligarchs and their allies are so powerful, but the truth is that the strength of America has always been in the unheard voices of its people across this great land. The strength is in the people, in us together.
Hawley closed by recalling a quote from Daniel Webster, who in trying years before the Civil War—when many said America's time had passed, that the country was hopelessly divided and irredeemable—used to end his speeches in the United States Senate by saying, "Union now, union forever."
Hawley adapted that message for today: America now, America first, America forever. God bless you.
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